Celan fell from here, arms flailing, before his time as if to Giudecca.

Dante wrote Tolomea but meant all the Jews of Giudecca riveted in ice.

My students are waiting for me to say something.

8.

губы

гугубы

гугубыбы

ли

One anthropologist embedded with a tribe in Brazil has argued it speaks a language that does not admit embedding.

In generative grammar, embedding is the process by which one clause is inserted inside another.

The anthropologist in question has since been disembedded from the tribe in question. That was the end of his fieldwork. For anthropologists have to be aware of the range of ways their activities can cause distress to others.

In economics or economic sociology, embedding refers to the degree to which economic activity is constrained by non-economic relations.

In pre-market societies economic activities are embedded in familial kinship, religious, and political relations.

In market societies economic activities have been rationalized, and economic action is disembedded to follow its own distinctive logic, captured in economic modeling.

14. КАЗНЬ, ПЕСНЬ.

Das Lied hat gelogen. The song lied.

Sorrow was the issue. Der Ausgang war Leid.

Was it the sorrow of love. War es das Leid der Liebe.

The sorrow of love burdens not only the soul but also the body. Das Leid der Liebe belastet nicht nur die Seele, sondern auch den Leib.

The soul is silly. Die Seele ist dumm.

It is silly because it does not know how to speak. Sie ist dumm, weil sie nicht sprechen kann.

It is language that says things in its name. Es ist die Sprache, die Sachen in ihrem Namen sagt.

Eugene Ostashevsky was born in 1968 in Leningrad, USSR. He immigrated with his family to New York in 1979 and currently lives in Berlin. His latest book of poetry, The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi, published by the New York Review of Books, contemplates communication challenges faced by pirates and parrots. His previous book of poetry, The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza, published by Ugly Duckling Presse in Brooklyn, examines the defects of natural and artificial languages. As translator and scholar, Ostashevsky works mainly on the Russian avant-garde. His prizes include the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm prize, the Siegfriend-Unseld-Gastprofessur, and the National Translation Award. The Pirate has also appeared from KOOKbooks in German translation by Uljana Wolf and Monika Rinck.